email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 141 April Oxford’s Music Magazine 2007 We Are The Robots! It’s Man Versus Machine with Keyboard Choir Plus: Festival Frenzy! Oxford Punt, Cornbury, Cropredy and Towersey line-ups announced. Truck Festival ticket info. The Music Market to close and The X fights for its musical life - see inside. NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 THIS YEAR’S TRUCK FESTIVAL will take place over the weekend of the 21st and 22nd July NEWNEWSS at Hill Farm in Steventon. Local music fans will get a chance to buy tickets ahead of the rest of Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU the country from Tuesday 10th April when Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] 1,000 tickets will go on sale at Fopp shops in Oxford and Reading as well as Dawson’s in Abingdon. More information on how to buy tickets online is available at www.truckfestival.org. No line-up details have yet been given. THE MARKET TAVERN in Market Street, home to the Music Market venue, is due to close sometime in the next two months. The pub has been bought by a Japanese restaurant chain. The exact closure date is still not certain but sometime in May looks the most likely scenario. The Music Market has become a great established live music venue over the last few years under the management of Charis Sharpe and is host to many of Delicious Music’s music nights. The Music Market is due to host the Oxford Punt on Wednesday 9th May. In the event of its earlier closure, bands will be moved to another venue in the city centre. In other venue news, the Wheatsheaf is due to undergo a major refurbishment over the next THE LINE-UP FOR THIS YEAR’S OXFORD PUNT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. The event, couple of months. The pub was taken over by st which takes place on Wednesday 9th May, features twenty of the best unsigned acts in Oxfordshire Admiral Inns as of the 1 April and they seem playing across six city centre venues on one night. to be committed to live music, which is The Punt, now in its tenth year, has long been a showcase for emerging Oxford talent with excellent news. No date has yet been given for previous events featuring the likes of The Young Knives, Goldrush, Winnebago Deal, Fell City Girl the refurb but it will involve a new PA and and The Edmund Fitzgerald, who went on to become Foals. lighting. 2007’s Punt line-up is: Borders: Jessica Goyder + Mr Shaodow THE SECOND OXFORD ARTS FESTVAL th The Music Market: Stornoway + Mary Bendy Toy + Brickwork Lizards + Borderville takes place over the weekend of Friday 28 – th QI Club: Joe Allen & Angharad Jenkins + Ape Has Killed Ape! + Les Clochards Sunday 30 September at various locations The Purple Turtle: Foxes! + Colins of Paradise + Mephisto Grande around the county. The festival takes in music, The Wheatsheaf: Mondo Cada + Baby Gravy (pictured) + Thirty Two + Mile High Young Team art, photography, poetry, drama and dance. The The Cellar: The Delta Frequency + The Gullivers + Space Heroes of the People + Smilex. organisers are now looking for acts to perform. Exact set times are yet to be finalised but Jessica Goyder will kick the Punt off at Borders at Local bands and solo artists can submit demos 6.15pm with Smilex rounding things off in raucous style at the Cellar at midnight. to The Oxford Arts Festival, PO Box 339, Fans wanting to catch as many bands as possible can buy an all-venue Punt pass (limited to Kidlington, OX5 NAY. The deadline for entries st th 100) for just £7 from Videosyncratic on Cowley Road, QI Bookshop on Turl Street in Oxford city is 31 July with the line-up announced on 17 centre or online from oxfordmusic.net. Or you can buy passes direct from Nightshift (without August. Wristbands are on sale now at booking fee) from PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Make cheques out to Nightshift. www.wegottickets.com, priced £12 for the weekend (allowing free entry to all venues, all weekend) and £7 for one day. Under-18s can AFTER SELLING OUT THE ZODIAC in buy tickets for £4 for the weekend. More March, rising Birmingham-based baggy information at: www.oxfordartsfestival.com. revivalists The Twang return to Oxford on Friday 25th May with a gig at Brookes THE YOUNG KNIVES cancelled their University Union. Tickets for the gig are on headline gig at Brookes University Union sale now, priced £8.50, from the Brookes box scheduled for Sunday 25th March. The office (01865 484750) or online from cancellation was forced on the band due to visa wegottickets.com. problems delayed their tour of the United Also coming to Brookes in May are Biffy States. No new date has been announced as yet. Clyro, who headlined last year’s Truck Meanwhile Steven Seagal’s planned show at Festival. They play on Monday 21st May; Oxford Town hall on Saturday 17th March was tickets are priced £14.50. cancelled at the last moment when a decision Upcoming attractions at the Zodiac include A was taken to film the following night’s show in Silver Mt. Zion on Thursday 3rd May, Andy London, meaning production commitments Yorke on Fri 4th, A Hawk and a Hacksaw on affected the Oxford gig. But hey, never mind the Sat 5th, The Haunted on Monday 7th, Willy poor sods in Oxford, Steve – just as long as Mason on Tuesday 8th, Simian Mobile Disco your ponytail looks nice and neat on the DVD. on Thursday 10th, and Frank Turner on Saturday 12th. Tickets for all Zodiac gigs are GAPPY TOOTH INDUSTRIES moves from available from www.ticketweb.co.uk or in the Zodiac to the Wheatsheaf as of this month. person (without booking fee) from the Zodiac The long-running live music club night is making box office. The Zodiac is set to close for a the switch in advance of the Zodiac’s closure major refurbishment at the end of May and over the summer. April’s gig features Space will reopen at the end of September. Heroes Of The People, Colours and Non-Stop Tango on Friday 27th. GTI will then run on the last Saturday of each month at the Sheaf THE X is discontinuing its Wednesday night folk sessions after seven years. The long- running trad folk night is coming to an end as many of the musicians involved are no longer able to commit to a weekly gig. Any promoters wanting to run a regular gig night at the X, which underwent an extensive refurbishment last year, should call Al on 01865 776431. KATE GARRETT and Barney Morse-Brown from The Kate Garrett Band feature on a track for the upcoming ‘Imagined Village’ album, produced by Afro Celts founder Simon Emmerson and released on Realworld later in the year. The album also features Billy Bragg, Sheila Chandra, Eliza and Martyn Carthy and Paul Weller. Kate’s band headline this month’s Beard Museum club night at the Purple Turtle on Sunday 29th April. AS EVER, don’t forget to tune into the BLONDIE AND DAVID GRAY have been confirmed as headline acts for this year’s Cornbury Download every Saturday evening between 6- Festival. The two-day festival takes place in the picturesque Cornbury Country Park, near 7pm on BBC Radio Oxford 95.2fm. The Charlbury, over the weekend of the 7th and 8th July. dedicated local music show, which celebrated its Chart-topping Welsh singer-songwriter David Gray tops the Saturday bill with support from second birthday last month, features new local The Waterboys, The Proclaimers, Scott Matthews and Imelda May. Also on the Saturday the releases and demos as well as interviews with World Stage features Echo & The Bunnymen, Midlake, The Broken Family Band, Betty Lavette local and touring acts and a gig and club guide. and Dan Reeder. On Sunday pop legends Blondie round off the festival and are joined on the main stage by The Feeling, Suzanne Vega, Hothouse Flowers and Osibisa. The Oxford Folk Festival stage is headlined by Seth Lakeman, with support from Flook, T & Latouche, Indigo Moss, Rafael and Lola and Wilber. Tickets are on sale now, priced £80 for the weekend or £45 for each day from the credit card hotline on 0871 472 0420. Discounted childrens tickets and special VIP tickets are also available. More information about the festival is online at www.cornburyfestival.com. SETH LAKEMAN, John Tams and Barry THIS YEAR’S CROPREDY FESTIVAL sees Coope and The Battlefield Band are the main Fairport Convention celebrate their 40th headline acts at this year’s Towersey Village anniversary and to mark the occasion the core Festival, which takes place in Towersey, near of the band’s original line up, including, Ashley Thame, over the August Bank Holiday Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave weekend (23rd-27th). Swarbrick, Richard Thompson and Chris While The five-day festival specialises in folk, roots will be performing the whole of their classic and acoustic music and includes ceilidhs, music `Liege & Lief’ album on the Friday night. workshops and youth and children’s activities Cropredy runs over the weekend of the 9th - amongst its 150 acts and events. 11th August with the current Fairport line-up, Other acts appearing include Van Eyken, Sid plus various guests, headlining the Saturday Kipper, The New Rope String Band, Hotel night. Palindrone, Parallelogramme and Peatbog Other acts confirmed include: Jools Holland & Faeries.